Chapter 413 Reduction of Financially Supported Personnel
"Tongwei, your uncle called and said that you don't recognize your relatives and don't help people in need. What's going on?" Qi Tongwei received a call from his father not long after Huang Xuehua and others left.
"Dad, it's not that I don't recognize my relatives. My three cousins raped a little girl. They are worse than animals. How can I cover up for them?" Qi Tongwei was very angry when he talked about this.
Before the three men left, they were cursing and saying that they had become high-ranking officials and no longer recognized their relatives.
I really don't know how they have the nerve to say such things. I have already repaid all the relatives and friends who helped me in the early years and asked them to make money.
Asking him to save three rapists, isn't that giving others an advantage? How can he launch the final charge against the Seven Samurai?
"So this is how things are. If that's the case, then you really can't help. We can't go against our conscience and be a corrupt official." After hearing the whole situation, Qi's father expressed his heartfelt approval and support for Qi Tongwei's approach.
"Dad, let's not talk about them. How are your and my mom's health? Why don't you move to Jingzhou? The medical conditions here are better." Qi Tongwei asked.
However, Qi's father firmly refused: "No, no place can compare to the comfortable living in our village. Your mother and I will live in the village."
Then the father and son chatted for a while, and Qi Tongwei decided to find time to go back as they didn’t have much time left.
In fact, before this, Qi Tongwei was thinking about instructing his secretary to be flexible with the relevant personnel below.
Either his three cousins should be placed in solitary confinement, or the prison guards should take better care of them to prevent them from being bullied and beaten by others in prison.
But when he learned that those cousins actually called his father directly, he immediately changed his mind and gave up the idea of making the call.
At this time, Pei Qianqian, who had been standing aside and listening silently, gently persuaded: "Tongwei, I think you did the right thing. Regarding this matter, we really can't help.
If you just need financial assistance, that's easy to deal with. We can just give it to you.
But we must never get involved in such unscrupulous, illegal and disorderly things.
Once you start this, you are handing your secrets to others, which will affect your future.
"I know." Qi Tongwei said with a smile. How could he not understand this?
Now that he is in his current position, he doesn't know how many eyes are watching him. It is best not to make mistakes if possible, especially such low-level mistakes.
"You go to Beijing tomorrow and pick up the children. We will go back to our hometown before the New Year to see our parents. They won't have much time left." Qi Tongwei thought for a while and instructed Pei Qianqian.
"Okay, I get it. It's a good opportunity for me to hide away. There are too many people coming to visit me at the end of the year to wish me a happy new year. It's not right to accept them or not." Pei Qianqian replied.
"Why are there so many corrupt officials? Some of them even embezzled billions!" Pei Qianqian continued to sigh without waiting for Qi Tongwei to ask.
“It is caused by many factors. First, there is no death penalty for corruption, which leads to a low cost of corruption.
If corruption reaches a certain amount, the crime will be punishable by death, then this phenomenon will inevitably be greatly reduced.
When the country was first founded, there was some level of corruption, but it was nothing compared to what it is today.”
Qi Tongwei paused and continued: "Another factor is the current official atmosphere.
Take the appointment and removal of cadres and personnel for example, it is filled with a large amount of power-for-money transactions.
It is said that in order to become a county party secretary, one needs 300 million yuan in working funds!
Imagine if an official spent 300 million yuan to become the county party secretary. Do you think he paid the money out of his own pocket? The answer is obviously no.
So, when he succeeds in coming to power, how could he not desperately try to make money to make up for his losses?
According to the current laws of our country, if the amount of embezzlement and bribery is between 20 and 200 million, it is considered a huge amount. Once caught, the offender will be sentenced to 3 to 10 years in prison.
If the amount of embezzlement or bribery exceeds 200 million, it is considered a particularly large amount and the corresponding sentence will be longer.
For this official who spent 300 million to get promoted, let alone making a fortune, just to recover the cost of buying the official position, the amount of his crime is probably beyond the standard of 10-year sentence.
Since they have committed a crime that is worthy of a severe sentence anyway, and there is no threat of the death penalty, then embezzling more money seems insignificant and unconstrained.
As a result, corruption is hard to contain and becomes more and more serious," Qi Tongwei explained.
"Tongwei, if that's the case, why not restore the death penalty?" Pei Qianqian asked curiously.
"Fool, don't you see who make the laws? No one will agree to restore the death penalty, and no one wants to cut off his own retreat." Qi Tongwei smiled helplessly.
Pei Qianqian stuck out her tongue and realized that she had asked a stupid question.
Qi Tongwei has never fantasized about restoring the death penalty. Unless another great man like the old man appears, it is simply impossible.
As he grew older and gained more knowledge, Qi Tongwei admired him more and more. What he said then still holds true today.
Take ships for example. Some people once said that it is better to buy than to build, and it is better to rent than to buy.
What did he say? Even if shipbuilding costs a lot of money, all the money stays in the country and promotes the development of various industries.
Buying or renting a ship may seem to cost very little money, but this money flows out of the country and into other people's wallets. If this continues for a long time, the economic losses suffered by our country will be immeasurable.
Just imagine, in the 1960s, our country independently developed its own nuclear weapons and sent satellites into space.
If we can truly have this understanding and attach importance to investment in science and technology, what can't we create?
Ultimately, this is because of a problem of understanding, the idea that it is okay to buy.
Qi Tongwei has no way of restoring the death penalty, but he can further strengthen the crackdown on corruption and bribery to have a strong deterrent effect.
At the same time, he also decided to gradually control and reduce the number of newly recruited civil servants.
Not long ago, when Qi Tongwei personally went to the grassroots to conduct research, he found that in a small county town with a total population of only about 17, there were more than 1 staff members who relied on financial support.
The total annual salary for just these 10,000 people is as high as more than 10 billion yuan!
With the increasing advancement of modern medical technology and the continuous improvement of medical and health conditions, people's average life expectancy is gradually increasing, and the number of retirees is also showing an increasing trend year by year.
If the size of the financially supported workforce is not effectively controlled and restricted at this time, it will not be long before a large number of financially supported workforce will become a heavy burden that hinders the sustained and healthy development of the economy and society.
In Qi Tongwei's view, this is a very important issue.
He also believes that some units do not need so many staff at all, and in many units more than half of the people are not working.
Take the small county he investigated as an example. There are more than 1 people supported by the government, which is almost equivalent to 16 people supporting one person.
Qi Tongwei felt that if he could solve this problem, he would definitely be considered a great reformer.